"Deadhead" by Nick Paumgarten (New Yorker): If you like the Grateful Dead, then you will probably like this.

"The Making of The Chronic" Ben Westhoff (L.A. Weekly): An oral history of the recording of Dr. Dre's solo debut. Some of it is cobbled together from old interviews, but we're sure you can still learn something new about life at Death Row records circa 1991.